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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1984
The primary purpose of this hearing was to enable committee members to question Government Accounting Office (GAO) personnel about the results of the GAO study of the implementation of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Black Grant. A background paper on the MCH block grant program is provided prior to the introduction of testimony concluding…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Children, Health Programs, Hearings
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Agriculture. – 1984
This is a compilation of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and other selected Federal nutrition statutes, including those relating to the Act and major authorities for domestic commodity distribution. The section on the Act itself covers policy, definitions, establishment, eligibility, issuance and use of coupons, value of allotment, approval of food…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Food, Government Role
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1975
The contents of this report by the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs--based on information gathered at the National Nutrition Policy hearings, from testimony before the Select Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee and through staff investigation--are organized in nine chapters, as follows: (1) Food Stamp…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Certification, Federal Programs, Food
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1988
This report reviews Federal funds awarded to VisionQuest National, Ltd., a profit-making organization that provides treatment programs for troubled youth. VisionQuest was one of several organizations selected in the early 1980s to assist the Federal government with the influx of Cuban refugees by providing services to adolescents and young adults…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Programs, Cubans, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
The Subcommittee met to examine the attitudes and the administration's response to the hunger and the malnutrition of farmworker children. Some questions asked were: (1) What programs had been developed to meet the food and nutritional needs of farmworker families? (2) Were they properly administered? If not, why not? (3) Were there sufficient…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Food Service
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs. – 1995
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 aimed to maximize tribal participation in planning and administration of federal services and programs, and to reduce federal bureaucracy in those programs. Despite passage of the act, tribal attempts to assume operations of federal programs were hindered by increased federal…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bureaucracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Indian Relationship
Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1975
The Declaration of Purpose of this Act states that it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well being of the nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food, by assisting the States, through grants-in-aid and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Educational Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1990
This report updates and expands two earlier editions which describe Federal programs which affect children and their families. An introductory section discusses and presents tables of data concerning target groups and participation in the programs; program administration; and program funding. The bulk of the report consists of profiles of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
